Top 58 Quotes by Bette Davis

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.